~ Biar D’Chol Biar ~ The SPLM-IO generals who collaborated with the govt., with Taban Deng Gai under the parasol of SPLM-OI are making a fool of themselves on SSBCTV. I’ve seen lately many of them are speaking out that, “Dr. Riek Machar shouldn’t to be allowed to return to Juba, South Sudan.” Yet, they […]

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Yambio, June, 06th 2017 Your Eminence, Your Grace, Your Lordship, Very Rev. Monsignors, Fathers, Religious Brothers & Sisters, the faithful and entire people of South Sudan, “May they all be one just like I and the Father are one John: 17:21” South Sudan is the newest country in the whole world, having attained its independence …

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It is a memory Hannah al-Sayed recalls very clearly. One night, while chatting and smoking shisha with her girlfriends in a cafe near the Nile in Khartoum, Sayed, a civil servant, recalled how the outing almost cost her her freedom.It was 8 January at …

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Note to the reader: This blog post is intended for readers who desire a short introduction to current affairs in South Sudan. The text is an adaptation of a brief originally written in Norwegian and titled “Sør-Sudan: fra fest til katastrofe”. That brief is intended for a secondary school audience and was published in May… Read more »

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By John A. Akec There is near consensus among the global community that no country can develop or compete in the global marketplace without establishing universities that provide quality higher education and conduct research that informs nation…

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The Religious Superiors’ Association of South Sudan (RSASS) released a statement on April 28 on active nonviolence as a way to build lasting peace in South Sudan. In this statement, RSASS acknowledges that South Sudan is entrenched in violence and in a deep economic and humanitarian crisis. Despite this, RSASS encourages the people of South Sudan …

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By Nigel Tricks, Regional Director – Horn, East and Central Africa Two weeks ago, I visited Oxfam’s drought response in eastern Somaliland. We drove across a stark landscape; what should be a pastoralist heartland is now completely devoid of water and almost empty of livestock. Not a blade of grass and barely a green leaf […]

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By Faith Kasina The hour-long trek with the first glimmers of dawn is still very vivid in her mind. “By five o’clock each morning, my sisters and I were already on the road, walking to the community water pan to collect water,” narrates Teresa Arot from Lowareng’ak area, north of Turkana. “All the women used […]

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There is a document held in the Pitt Rivers Museum collections called ‘Reflections of Cultural Artifacts and History: the case of the Shilluk pipe’ written by Kunijwok Gwado Ayoker, while he was at Wolfson College, Oxford in the 1980s. It is a short essay about the cultural significance of pipes and smoking in Shilluk culture – … Continue reading The pipes of Gwado Ayoker

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From the beginning of the civil clashes in December 2013, in South Sudan there is a season of endless violence. In these months of attacks, people have been displaced, brutalised, raped. Thousands of South Sudaneses decided to migrate in the nearest countries. For the ones who remain in their country the situation is unbearable without …

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~ Biar D’Chol Biar ~ For the past decades in the continent of Africa, the talks heavily focused on ‘Somalization.’ A term absurdly and ridiculously coined to describe Somalia as nation that disintegrates and becomes ‘lawless’ nation, due to her bitter internecine war. ‘Somalization’ has been on Africans’ lips for many years, that: “Somalia is […]

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~ Biar D’Chol Biar ~ For the past decades in the continent of Africa, the talks heavily focused on ‘Somalization.’ A term absurdly and ridiculously coined to describe Somalia as nation that disintegrates and becomes ‘lawless’ nation, due to her bitter internecine war. ‘Somalization’ has been on Africans’ lips for many years, that: “Somalia is […]

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Welcome to the website for a new international research network connecting collections from South Sudan in European museums. Over the next 16 months, with funding from the AHRC, we will be running a series of workshops investigating the history and future of South Sudanese arts and heritage in museum collections. We will post updates and … Continue reading Website Launched

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Um al-Hassan al-Hawarriyya was an iron lady who subdued the desert. Owner of the first café on the 594-kilometre desert road between Dongola and Omdurman, linking Khartoum to northern states along the border with Egypt, al-Hassan became a leg…

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John was 32 years old when he was killed in South Sudan’s capital Juba. “He was a heroic reporter and a leader, widely loved and embraced in his community,” said Nigel Ballard, Internews Director of Community Radio.
I met John in 2012, when he…